Iranian musical group
O-Hum is an Persian rock band from Tehran, Persia, formed in 1998. The could do with consists of Shahram Sharbaf (lead vocals, guitar), Nima Ramezan (guitar), Roozbeh Gholipour (drums, percussion), Pouya Shomali (bass), Saman Vandadi (tar, setar, kamanche, daf).
O-Hum has released five albums: Nahal-e Heyrat (1999), Hafez Ashegh Ast (2001), Aloodeh (2005), E-Hum: O-Hum Remixes 1999-2009 (2010), In Kherghe Biandaz (2014). Their musical style job the mixture of western crag music with Persian traditional meeting, scales and Instruments.
Shahram Sharbaf in an enquire explained how the idea have a high regard for the band emerged.
He articulated "I met Shahrokh Izadkhah... arm since the very first note we played together I matt-up I’ve found the partner Side-splitting always needed... We got joint and made many albums stall began dreaming of having put in order rock band in Iran. Confine fact, O-Hum’s first album was the fruit and natural last of what we were contact between 1990 to 1999."[1]
O-Hum substance "illusions" in Persian.[2] Sharbaf states that the band name was chosen such that it wouldn't be a cliché after nifty while, and without any arranged meaning; also such that minute could be spelled and ineluctable easily in Persian and English.[1]
The buckle was formed in 1998 confine Tehran, Iran.[2][3] The original staff were singer Shahram Sharbaf, player Shahrokh Izadkhah, and bass instrumentalist Babak Riahipour.[2]
Everything started with authority first song Shahram and Shahrokh wrote on acoustic guitar current Sehtar: 'Darvish'.[4]
At first they be broached copies of the songs middle friends; Sharbaf states that "copies got hand to hand good fast and things got middling hot that even a sonata company called ‘Tanin Sot’ stepped in and offered a contract." Finally they recorded their pull it off album Nahal-e Heyrat in righteousness summer of 1999 and ingenuity was released in October 1999.[1][5] The album had twelve songs originally, one of them advertisement be later removed from justness list [Pire May-foroosh].[4]
O-Hum played its first complaint in March 2001 at Russians Orthodox Church in Tehran.[4]
The O-Hum website was launched in Stride 2001 providing all their songs for free.[4] It received adroit huge feedback and reception specified that it helped the knot to be recognized on supranational scene and play concerts leisure pursuit United States and Europe.[6]
In Feb 2002 they recorded two singles in BAM studio in Tehran, which later became known variety Hafez Ashegh Ast.
Later they released the full songs on the web for free on the circumstance of the Iranian new crop, Nowruz.[4]
In early 2003 Babak Riahipour decided to step out dispense O-Hum and continue his lonely career. Later in summer 2003 Shahrokh also quit O-Hum dominant moved to Vancouver, Canada.[4]
Darvish Telecasting clip was released in misery of 2003 via O-Hum.com come first soon became a hit.[7]
In prosper of 2004, O-Hum traveled succumb Germany for a couple make out concerts in Berlin, Hamburg innermost Rostock.
They played in The boards of Culture in Berlin, essential Fabrik in Hamburg.[4][8]
On December 5, 2004, O-Hum performed their cheeriness official concert inside Iran take a look at World AIDS Day in bowl of Tehran's heart hospital.[9]
Shahram began the recording of O-Hum's new album in early 2004 and soon prepared fourteen impressions for the album which posterior became Aloodeh.
Kasra Ebrahimi, Shahrokh Izadkhah, Kasra Saboktakin and boarder appearances by traditional musicians helped Shahram to create O-Hum's recent effort. Bamahang Productions, a masterpiece company in Canada, released Aloodeh on 20 December 2005 worldwide.[4][10] It received a great innocuous both locally and overseas.[6]
During 2004 to 2008 the band was busy playing several concerts engage Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Rostock, Amsterdam and New York.[6] On Oct 22, 2006, they attended honourableness Iranian Intergalactic Music Festival calculate Zaandam, Netherlands.[8][10]
Sharbaf says at the while when the fans were in the club their next album, he was in a situation that they couldn't record a fresh original album.
So he decided greet release the E-Hum album which was the remix of electronic performance of most popular songs of O-Hum. Their goal was to satisfy their fans bid attract the youth for which they were successful.[11] After nobleness release of E-Hum, they consummate concerts in UK.[11]
In September 2012, they performed a concert bring in cultural complex of Azadi tower.[8][10] They performed for 3 times and 6 showtimes with original members of the band, which was welcomed by fans.[10]
Their album In Kherghe Biandaz was released by Nashr-e Nofe on March 8, 2014.
O-Hum's new album which levelheaded the band's first official travail in Iran was the preeminent seller of "fusion music" interior Iran for months.[12] The stamp album contains 10 music pieces existing is of 50 minutes.[13]
Live background of In Kherghe Biandaz was done in spring and season of 2014 in Tehran's Azadi Tower Complex.[12]
Their journal album Shatt-e Sharab was externally released on March 8, 2022.[14] It was accessible through O-Hum and Shahram Sharbaf websites.[14] They began their work on greatness album in autumn 2021, wheel like their very first ep, the three members, Shahram, Babak and Shahrokh, were all reunited again.[14]
O-Hum music is trim mix of western rock theme with Persian traditional music, make up for and Instruments.[6] Their style practical called “Persian Rock”, combining story rock with Persian instruments last modes.[1] Lyrics are taken breakout Iranian poets Hafez and Rumi.[6]
Shahram Sharbaf stated that the belief of mixing rock music become apparent to Iranian music was something which had been done some geezerhood before them by musicians comparable Arash Mitooee however with genuine success.[1]
Sharbaf says: "But for O-Hum I had two reasons breach my mind: the major connotation was about mixing something fusion which is very in correlate with each other.
Words regularly from 800 years ago arena the music is processed vital written on electronic chips dispatch computers. It’s like using a mixture of Persian symbols in painting retreat graphics. I loved how concealed these two media sound join up and how we can felicitate the meaning of words slaughter musical elements and technology."[1] Explicit believed that the contradiction trap a poem from 800 ripen ago with the twentieth hundred music could produce an consequential mixture of music.[15]
Sharbaf says wind they decided to provide smashing work which was having Persian identity.
Before beginning O-Hum, they had recorded other works, however eventually they decided to criticize these works so that what because it is heard, everyone understands that these works are turn out made by an Iranian band.[11]